There are two updates I could do about this weekend. If I was feeling clever I could do them in a table so they could be read side by side, thus indicating that I seem to be feeling both versions at the same time - but I'm not so I won't. I will leave instead it as an exercise for the reader.Version 1I had a very pleasant weekend with adjectivemarcus. This is because:

I was able to forget my house related stress for a lot of the time.

We didn't stress about doing too much, but sat round watching sci-fi and cartoon channels a lot of the time.

I didn't do any housework, but I did manage to get some clothes clean for Monday, which was the only essential thing.

We went to the Hoyrood and the Mish and had fun and I danced without further injuring myself and we managed to get a cab home.

Rachael came over on Sunday and has filled in flat application forms and agrees with us on a name for the new flat, which will be announced shortly.

Parts of The Matrix Reloaded were excellent.

Version 2The whole weekend sucked, thus proving that I am a bad person, a terrible host and should just have stayed at work. This is because:

I got repeated bouts of depression that lasted only about half an hour to an hour but which seemed much more.

Comments

as adjectivemarcus? since your assessment of the weekend seems to be largely based on whether or not you were a good hostess and whether he minded that you didn't tidy up or couldn't cook him gourmet food, just say 'Marcus, did you have a good time?' and if he says yes, go with Version 1 (which I'm sure is more accurate anyway).

I didn't rate MR all that much either FWIW, quite a disappointment in some ways.

I think there's always things you didn't do. The main thing this weekend was to see Marcus and socialise and have fun, wasn't it? Sounds like that went well - laugh-a-minute entertainment for an entire weekend visit is impossible, but a good night out is always fab.

Bummer about Telewest. ADSL seems to be more reliable in some ways though. We use an ISP called Zen, they seem to be pretty good.

The messages I had from Marcus over the weekend sounded as if he was enjoying himself.

(Well, apart from the one this afternoon that said he was stuck in Lancaster because his train had been terminated due to a tree on the line and he might be getting a bus back. That one was a bit less cheerful...)

A trick that works for me surprisingly often, which evolved out of conversations on alt.poly, is to visualise the workings of my brain as an electronic gizmo and "see" myself rewiring it so that I get the output I want for a given input. It works especially well if I can combine it with autohypnosis. Of course there are still many, many situations in which it doesn't work, often because I'm too crap to think to try it, but every little helps ;-)